Google has pledged to destroy the private browsing history of millions of people who used Chrome's 'incognito' mode.
Google will delete billions of data records as part of a settlement for a lawsuit that accused the tech giant of improperly tracking the web-browsing habits of users who thought they were browsing the internet privately.
As part of the settlement, Google must delete "billions of data records" that reflect the private browsing activities of users in the class action suit, according to court documents filed Monday in San Francisco federal court. "Moreover, the settlement requires Google to delete and remediate, in unprecedented scope and scale, the data it improperly collected in the past," Boies added.
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